Lazy journalism symptom is when a band / artist is described by combining two other artists with some adjective (e.g. Meets). But sometimes it's so on the mark that you know how its going to sound immediately.
My example : Fanfare by Eric Matthews = Nick Drake meets the Boo Radleys.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 February 2004 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)